

At one of my new favorite blogs,
AltJapan, Matt Alt attends Tokyo’s biannual
Comiket — it’s the world’s largest comic convention — and
returns with several “hot picks.” I would
love to read the two pictured above:
Hellbon, Vol. 2, a fan-produced
Hellboy comic, and
Mugen no Hiraiasu, which features Tony the Tiger “beating the shit out of various anime characters with a nail-studded baseball bat.”
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January 2nd, 2007 at 10:25 am
Kevin, stoopid question of the day: are the Hellboy and Tony the Tiger tales officially sanctioned, or are we talking total copyright infringement here? I imagine the cereal icon going all Tarantino in particular strays well beyond the original character development.
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
They’re fan-produced works (essentially, fanfic). So, no, they’re not sanctioned.
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:59 am
I love that there’s a world where cereal mascots evolve into fanfic (hearkening back to that piece B@N linked to a few weeks back as well).
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
If you find that Tony the Tiger comic somewhere, let me know …
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:27 am
I have to say that the Hong Kong Comic Festival is the biggest comic show in the world…it makes San Diego’s numbers look like a community center comic con.
http://www.hkcomicsfest.com/pressrelease.html
Even though Chinese comics dont seem to fly outside of Asia, they do pretty well in their own region.